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Guide for Journalists on How to Document International Crimes
Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) (2022), 16 pp.
"[…] Journalists covering conflict zones in some cases become first-hand witnesses to crimes, including international crimes such as systematic killing of civilians, serious acts of torture and mass sexual violence. This guide aims to provide simple, accessible advice to journalists (and editors)
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Changing the Story: Intergenerational Dialogue, Participatory Video and Perpetrator Memories in Cambodia
Memory Studies, volume 16, issue 5 (2022), 17 pp.
"Questions of reconciliation and memory after genocide and conflict in Cambodia remain finely poised. Young people often do not believe the stories of hardship and loss of the older generation, and cleavages remain between divided and stigmatised former factions. This article reflects on a series of
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Guía para periodistas: Claves para comunicar el proceso, el informe final y el legado de la Comisión de la Verdad
Bogotá: Comisión de la Verdad; Taller de Edición Rocca (2022), 220 pp.
"Los medios de comunicación son grandes aliados en la sensibilización y apropiación del legado de la Comisión de la Verdad. El Informe Final brinda la oportunidad de difundirlo a través de una variedad de formatos innovadores que vayan más allá del registro de historias. Los contextos explica
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The Nanjing Massacre and the Making of Mediated Trauma
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 235 pp.
"Drawing on cultural trauma theory, this book investigates how collective memory of the Nanjing Massacre [by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945] is fashioned in China and how the mass media, political power and public praxis jointl
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Narrativa transmedia: Una mirada al conflicto armado y la memoria social indígena desde los relatos expandidos. Casos: Colombia y Perú
Contratexto (Universidad de Lima), issue 37 (2022), pp. 259-286
"Este trabajo tiene como objetivo central el análisis de dos proyectos transmedia latinoamericanos en el marco de la no ficción, circunscritos desde el método del estudio de casos y la aplicación de elementos de la teoría del actor-red, donde las relaciones, la conformación de grupos sociales
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The Transition Will be Televised: Telenovelas, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice in Colombia
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2022), 453 pp.
"This book explores the imprint that the peace process involving the guerilla organisation FARC-EP left on Colombian TV fiction. To that end, it scrutinises the phenomenon of Colombian reconciliation telenovelas, which are intrinsically linked to the national Transitional Justice process. Based on a
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The First Draft of History. Journalists: Witnesses Before the Hague Tribunal
Sarajevo: Mediacentar (2022), 97 pp.
"The book was born out of the need to understand and convey the experience of journalists who testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Aiming to shed light on the insufficiently researched role of journalists and newspaper material before the ICTY, Media
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Memory and Erasure: Gukurahundi and the Culture of Violence in Zimbabwe
Bulawayo; Harare: Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE); Weaver Press (2022), xxxi, 153 pp.
"Memory and Erasure brings together young and established Zimbabwean scholars and activists who explore with fresh eyes the failure to overcome the terrible legacies of this period. At its heart is recognition that justice cannot be achieved while Gukurahundi’s perpetrators remain in power and sti
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The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People’s Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, volume 51, issue 2 (2022), pp. 194-218
"History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people’s understanding of their nation’s modern history, as revealed on the popular microblogging site SinaWeibo. We analysed
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Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry
Africa Spectrum, volume 57, issue 3 (2022), pp. 264-281
"The call to decolonize African Studies has a profound influence on the field, with varying degrees of success. This article addresses this topic in relation to the author’s personal experiences in the publishing industry in Namibia. By describing the attempt to publish a historical book about Nam
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Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 334 pp.
"This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary appr
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Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media
Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press (2021), xiv, 408 pp.
"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are
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Archives and Human Rights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxi, 330 pp.
"Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the
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Konfrontation mit deutschem Kolonialismus: Tun wir genug?
Hamburg: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2021), 32 pp.
"Bei der folgenden Kurzbibliografie handelt es sich um einen Auszug aus der Datenbank des „Fachinformationsverbundes Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde“ (FIV-IBLK)." (Seite 2)
Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past
Bristol: Bristol University Press (2021), 116 pp.
"Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as ‘memories’ and deliver them back to us. But how does that change the way we remember? Drawing on original qualitative research as well as industry documents and reports, this book c
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Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age
Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), viii, 155 pp.
"[...] The past does not really exist: it is only a story we tell ourselves. But what happens when we tell this story not only to ourselves but also to our followers, when it is recorded not only on our social media pages but also on the pages of hundreds or thousands of others, making it something
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Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (2021), ix, 234 pp.
"In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have
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